For UK founders and investors watching whether tokenisation infrastructure gets built from scratch or bolted onto rails the world already trusts, this week's answer came from two of the biggest names in global banking. Standard Chartered and HSBC have completed the first live cross border transactio

For UK founders and investors watching which model wins the tokenisation infrastructure race, this week's confirmation from one of the world's largest custodian banks is a bigger signal than another platform launch.

For UK founders watching tokenisation move from pilot to plumbing, the clearest signal this week came not from a new platform launch but from the world's largest securities depository proving the rails work, followed within days by the IMF warning that proving they work is not the same as proving th

For UK founders and investors wondering whether tokenisation infrastructure will be built by crypto native platforms or by regulated City institutions, this week's announcement from AIM listed Marechale Capital offered a clear answer.

Digital Prime Technologies, a US based institutional technology provider for digital asset lending markets, announced a strategic investment from LTP, a global institutional digital asset prime brokerage, on 12 August. LTP joins existing strategic backers EquiLend, Galaxy Digital and Marex, the Lond

CoinMarketCap has expanded its professional data API with seven new endpoints dedicated to real world assets, giving developers and institutions a single reference point for tracking tokenised stocks, government bonds, exchange traded funds and real estate as the on-chain RWA market approaches 34 bi

July 2026 in Review. Britain opened July accused of being behind on tokenisation. It closed the month with its biggest institutional coalition yet, a date for its first digital bond, and the world's largest custody bank moving fund ownership onto a blockchain. UK The month's UK story is really one long rebuttal, delivered in real time, to a single sentence. On 6 July, UK Finance published a report written by Oliver Wyman with a blunt headline finding: Britain is behind other

A quieter but structurally important piece of tokenisation news broke this week away from the equity headlines. Two infrastructure providers proved that digital assets, stablecoins and tokenised bank deposits can now settle against each other automatically, without the manual reconciliation that has

Ondo Finance, one of the tokenisation platforms UK infrastructure builders watch most closely for signals on where real world asset architecture is heading, has quietly abandoned its original plan to build a full blockchain and replaced it with a narrower execution layer instead.

The group is backed by the City of London Corporation and will spend the next year working on live tokenisation use cases across UK financial markets, starting with tokenised repo. Woolard, who spent eight years as chair of the Financial Conduct Authority before taking on the Champion role in April, is addressing the report to whoever holds the Chancellor's job next, a reminder that this is being built to outlast any one minister. The headline numbers are designed to focus mi

For founders and investors in the UK watching how tokenised equity infrastructure matures elsewhere, a partnership announced on 8 July between two US tokenisation specialists offers a useful signal. The biggest obstacle to broker dealer adoption has rarely been the technology. It has been the regula

Barclays published a report with PwC on 9 July putting a number on something the UK tokenisation sector has mostly argued from instinct rather than evidence: what the technology is actually worth to the country. The answer, according to "Rewiring Finance: Tokenisation as a Catalyst for UK Growth", is up to £33bn in additional GDP per year by 2035, with roughly two thirds of that benefit landing outside financial services altogether. Just think about that, Most tokenisation c

For anyone in the UK still weighing whether tokenised equity is a real market or a slide in a pitch deck, the past week offered a concrete answer. On 2 July, Securitize began trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker SECZ, and on the same day it made its own newly listed shares availab

The most important developments in tokenisation are rarely the loud ones. They tend to happen in the settlement layer, the part of finance almost nobody outside the back office ever thinks about, and they decide whether an idea that works in a pilot can survive contact with real institutional money.

Settlement is the least glamorous word in finance and quite possibly the most important. It is the moment a trade actually completes, when cash and asset change hands and the deal becomes real. For decades that moment has taken days, propped up by a chain of intermediaries each taking a cut and addi

There is a neat circularity to the week ahead in New York. Securitize, the firm that turns funds run by BlackRock, Apollo and VanEck into blockchain tokens, is itself about to become a publicly traded share. On 29 June its merger partner holds the shareholder vote. If it passes, as expected, the com

A view from the author on where this is heading, and why the noise about crypto misses the point entirely.

The backers include HSBC, BNP Paribas and Citadel Securities, a sign that the institutions which run capital markets now want to own the rails underneath them.

For most of its short history, tokenisation has had a quiet structural problem. Every platform that issues a tokenised bond, fund or slice of private equity has tended to build its own rules for how that token behaves: how a transfer is checked against a whitelist, how an asset is frozen when a cour

Real world asset tokenisation has matured from white paper to working infrastructure. The question for UK founders and operators is now less whether it works, and more what the stack actually looks like end to end.